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- Great Valley Products SCSI Controllers
- --------------------------------------
- · When using Chinon CD-ROM drives with GVP SCSI Controllers, you will
- need to add the following line to your s:startup-sequence or
- s:user-startup file BEFORE the CD-ROM drive is mounted.
-
- gvpscsictrl # dcoff
-
- where # represents the SCSI unit number of your CD-ROM drive. For
- example, with Chinon CD-ROM drive connected as SCSI unit #1, you
- would add:
-
- gvpscsictrl 1 dcoff
-
- This command will be found on the GVP install disk and should be
- copied to your C: directory, if you have not already done so.
-
-
-
-
- · The NEC-25 (or Media Vision MV-2) CD-ROM drive will need
- version 4.13 or greater of the GVP firmware when being used with
- a GVP controller card in a machine other than the A1200. With
- an Amiga 1200 and a GVP A1291, you will need version 5.4 of the
- SCSI firmware. Contact GVP (!) for further details.
-
-
-
-
-
- Dataflyer SCSI+
- ---------------
- · When using the SCSI+ (IDE to SCSI converter), you will need to
- ensure that the DataFlyer driver software (SCSIPlus command) is executed
- BEFORE the CD-ROM drive is mounted. This can be accomplished by
- ensuring that the block of commands to mount AsimCDFS (see below)
- are moved to the END of the s:user-startup file. If needed, use your
- favourite text editor to move the commands.
-
- ;BEGIN AsimCDFS
- echo "Mounting AsimCDFS..."
- assign AsimCDFS: SYS:AsimCDFS
- assign AsimCDFS_Buffer: ND0:AsimCDFS_Buffer
- mount >NIL: CD0:
- ;END AsimCDFS
-
- In addition, we have found that the "dfmount" command will experience
- problems with CD-ROM drives. It is recommended to remove this command
- from the user-startup (ie. by placing a semi-colon in front of the
- command).
-
-
-
-
- · The NEC-25 (or Media Vision MV-2) CD-ROM drive does not work
- with the Dataflyer SCSI products.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Amiga 3000, A4091, A590, A2091
- ------------------------------
- · When using Nakamichi or Pioneer multi-disc CD-ROM changers, you will
- need to ensure that the SCSI controller card has the Logical Units enabled.
- With the A4091, A2091 and A590, this is accomplished via a jumper
- or DIP switch. Consult your manual for its exact location.
-
- On the Amiga 3000, this is accomplished via an option in the Amiga
- 3000's battery backed RAM. We suggest using the program SCSIPrefs
- by Martin A. Blatter, which can be found on Fred Fish disk #532.
-
- In addition, you will need to UNSELECT the Ignore LUNS on Open?
- flag for each device CD0 through CD5 (for separate mode) or
- for CD0 (for pooled mode) via AsimCDFS_Prefs.
-
-
-
- Nakamichi MBR-7, MBR-7.4, NEC 4xc and NEC 2xc 7-disc changers
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- Version 3.5 of AsimCDFS seems to enable the Nakamichi and NEC line
- of 7-disc changers to work well with most Amiga controller cards.
-
-
-
-
- Amiga 1200/4000 IDE Controller
- ------------------------------
- The Sony CDU-55E seemed to have problems when connected to the built-in
- A1200 or A4000 IDE controller card when combined with certain hard drives,
- such as the Seagate ST9051A or Conner CP30540.
-
-
-
-
- Panasonic LF-1000 PD/CD-ROM drive and equivalents
- -------------------------------------------------
- This drive is a combination optical read/write and CD-ROM drive.
-
- AsimCDFS fully supports the CD-ROM drive portion, while support
- for the read/write optical side is provided from the FastFileSystem of
- AmigaDOS. A formatting utiltity for the PD cartridges, called PD_Format,
- is provided with AsimCDFS.
-
- During the install of AsimCDFS, if you respond "Yes" to the "automount"
- question, the CD-ROM portion of the PD/CD-ROM drive will be automatically
- mounted upon bootup (whether a CD-ROM disc is present in the drive or not).
- However, most SCSI controllers will require that a PD optical cartridge
- be present at boot time in the drive for the PD0: device to be mounted.
-
- If this is unacceptable, you might want to use the PD0 mountlist
- contained on the AsimCDFS install disk. For WB2.1 and above, replace
- the first two lines with the correct device and unit number and place
- it in your DEVS:Dosdrivers directory. Alternatively, you can use a
- public domain utility like SCSI_Mounter. Additional support for this
- problem may be incorporated into future versions of AsimCDFS. (22/1/96)
-
- As with all read/write removable media, it is strongly advised that
- you observe the following:
- - have only 1 partition on the cartridge;
- - keep the exact same parameters for each cartridge (AmigaDOS device
- name like PD0:, tracks, cylinders, etc.)
-
- ** If you choose to have different parameters for each cartridge, do so
- at your own risk!
-
- Our PD_Format utiltity will setup each cartridge in an identical, safe
- manner. It is safe to give each cartridge a different volume name
- with the "format" or "relabel" commands.
-
-
-
-
- Panasonic CR-504 CD-ROM drive
- -----------------------------
- It has been reported to us that a new production run of Panasonic CR-504
- CD-ROM drives are incompatible with the Amiga. We will be looking
- into this problem and should have futher information shortly.
-
-
-
- Copying CDDA files
- ------------------
- We have noticed that using file systems other than the standard
- FastFileSystem may allow for better results when copying CDDA files
- from a compact disc to a hard drive. QuickFileSystem from
- Consultron and AmiFileSafe from Fourth Level Developments are two
- such alternate file systems.
-